... of “philosophical poetry” was thought dangerously radical not solely because of its content but because of the compound logic of its form. Effecting a more perfect union of scientific reason and the poetic imagination, Darwin's philosophical poetry conjoins as poetry the aesthetic and political aims of his work...

...). He is completing one book on Descartes and his age, another on rethinking the Renaissance as part of long continental and oceanic intercultural exchanges, and an edited collection on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes . By Braider...

... and glosses a museum piece of the period. BRENTSSTIRLING University of Washington Francis Bacon on Communication 6. Rhetoric or: The Art of Apply- ing Reason to Imagination for the Better Moving of the Will. By KARL R. WALLACE.Chapel Hill...

... in the Fourteenth Century (1991). He is a longtime admirer, but not a close relative, of William K. Wimsatt Jr. Rhyme/Reason, Chaucer/Pope, Icon/Symbol James I. Wimsatt ince Chaucer and Pope made the most celebrated uses of decasyl- Slabic couplets in English, the comparison...

...W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ONE RELATION OF RHYME TO REASON ALEXANDER POPE By W. K. WIMSATT,JR. I The view of rhyme which I wish to discuss in this essay has...

...J. Raymond Berby Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE PARADOX OF FRANCIS JEFFREY: REASON VERSUS SENSIBILITY By J. RAYMONDDERBY Jeffrey’s identifiable reviews and surviving letters reveal incon- sistencies that suggest conflict...

...Philip Metzidakis Victor Ouimette. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Romanic Studies, Second Series, 24, 1974. xvii + 237 pp. $12.50 Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 94 KEVIEWS Reason Aflame...

...John Sutherland Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 WIT, REASON, VISION, AND AN ESSAY ON MAN By JOHN SUTHERLAND To argue that the Essay on Man is witty, in Pope’s own sense of that term, must seem far less controversial than...

...Evelyn Birge Vitz John V. Fleming. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xii + 196 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS Reason and the Lover. By JOHN V. FLEMING.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xii + 196...

...Virgil Nemoianu © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-03Nemoianu.ak 6/1/00 2:26 PM Page 41 Hating and Loving Aesthetic Formalism: Some Reasons Virgil Nemoianu he present essay starts from deeply felt concerns and deals...

...Rachel Mayer Brownstein Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 BYRON’S DON JUAN: SOME REASONS FOR THE RHYMES By RACHELMAYER BROWNSTEIN Badly educated traveler that he is, Byron’s Don Juan must find language...

...Thomas DiPiero Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, thinkers in various disciplines evoked birds and other animals that appeared able to talk to make points about language use and human reason and identity. Talking birds initially allowed philosophers to draw parallels between language...

...” or degraded version of periodization; perhaps for this reason, it is also the perfect narrative mode for the present's historical self-consciousness. Ellis's novels American Psycho and Glamorama expose the contradictory link between the ephemeral details of consumer life and the essence of a single, self...

...Christina Lupton This article explores two sets of convergences: one between skeptical and commonsense philosophies in the eighteenth century, and the other between poststructuralist and eighteenth-century philosophies. It argues that all of these forms of reasoning share an interest in the paper...

... in the periphery are shaped by complex pasts that they are not well placed to comprehend. For historical reasons, peripheral societies lack the institutions and practices required for an adequate grasp of modernity’s profoundly disruptive effects. The globalizing forms of colonialism and capitalism diverted...

... of chance,” and he touted it as an expansion of “the empire of reason” into formerly ungovernable territory. However, Pascal never applied the arithmetic triangle to games with more than two players, and the love triangle among the central characters in Lafayette’s novel implicitly ridicules this constraint...

..., and literary reasons for the formation of a literary canon, and to a degree literary production is inseparable from cross-cultural (re)production. The literary canon appropriates and is also appropriated by translations. Many modern Chinese literary concepts derive from translations, especially of Western...

...Paul H. Fry Harold Bloom in his “anxiety of influence” phase is often thought to insist on an intertextual dynamic that is ahistorical. This view might seem to be confirmed by comparison with the text of Bloom's “strong precursor,” T. S. Eliot's “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” The reason...

..., the contemporary African novel returns to the particulars of national histories to explain change that has remained unacknowledged or misrepresented for political reasons. It grapples with the writing of history as a conscious process of what Edward W. Said describes as “textualization”: a narration that stresses...